Traveling While Black: My Experiences as an African-American Woman Researching in China

Speaker Keisha Brown will discuss her research into China’s media depictions of and diplomatic exchanges with African-Americans during their struggle for freedom and equality from 1949–1972. She will also describe how many Chinese people responded to her in light of this history of Sino-black relations.

Brown is a doctoral student in history at the University of Southern California who began her research into race, ethnicity, and blackness in China after spending a semester there as a student at the University of Notre Dame.